Mike Huckabee was forced off Fox News as a weekly show host by his exploration of a 2016 presidential bid. He makes the move just in time for a tour to peddle his latest “book” — political celebrity won’t hurt.

Huckabee is going straight to the well of his evangelical base apparently as he hits the book circuit.

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Credit a Branson, Mo., newspaper with the scoop that Huckabee will tape a show Tuesday morning with Jim Bakker at his studio in Blue Eye, Mo. Yes, THAT, Jim Bakker, the ex-con televangelist whose love of money perhaps exceeds even Huckabee’s.

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